If I have input folder files_input that has subfilders like 01-2015, 02-2015, 03-2015 etc and all these subfolders have other subfolders. Each subfolder has only one file called index.html.
How can ...

I have a directory with default ACL permissions that get copied to all files created in that directory, but only if they are created in that directory. Would it be possible to change the permissions ...

From my Ubuntu server I used rsync to copy all my data to my USB drive (FAT). After copying the data (it needed quite a while to copy so I guess the copying did happen) I deleted it from the server.
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I'm facing this issue since ever I started using Linux Distros. While copying/moving either graphically or with cp one/many big content(anything like big text file, tar.gz archive, iso file, movies) ...

There is a collection of .doc files, in addition to other types of files, on a remote server (which supports SCP).
I am trying to write a script to retrieve the latest (most recently modified) .doc ...

I have an issue in copying my file in my directories.
I have .txt and .jpeg files in a lot of directories, and I want to copy only the .txt files according to the directory. For example, I have this:
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I need to recursively copy a folder from a Ubuntu remote server where I have ssh access. I don't want to follow symbolic links, nor to copy permissions/owner/group, because my client system (Ubuntu ...

Having migrated to Linux from Windows, I would like to find an alternative software to Winmerge or rather learn command line tools to compare and sync two folders on Linux. I would be grateful if you ...

I have a friend who is a photographer and she has a lot of large files as a result. Our current solution is where some files are delivered to my house. I don't have the storage capability to store all ...

Everyday a log file is created in my directory. But with time, there tend to be a lot of log files. I want to keep the latest 4 log files in .log format, and compress the rest and copy the compressed ...

I have got the command working locally using normal commands. I now need it to run while using ftp.
I understand I need to use '!' And instead of copy I will need to use put so it works on the lcd, ...

I'm trying to upload some big files (around 10GB) with a slow upload speed (200kb/s) on a often disconnected SSH connection (due to poor network conditions).
I'm trying to use scp, but if there is a ...

I went ahead and used rsync to back up a root directory called /files
my exact commands werersync -avzh /files willc66@server.com:/backup,
inside my /files directory I had 2 sub directories home and ...

I am using gFTP to transfer a large gzip file (the gFTP window says it is ~3.7GB). However an hour after saying it the transfer was 99% completed and had 00:00:00 time remaining and says the received ...

Copy files to a destination folder only if the files already exist. but the source files have a different file extension.
i.e
I have a backup of some files with ".desktop.in" extension and I want to ...

i am trying execute ssh-copy-id in one port different than 22 (default). I researched and found the command below
$ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub "user@192.168.0.1 -p 22001"
but, when execute the ...

I have a directory containing 1772 files named PRC0001, PRC002,... up to PRC1772.
How can I copy a subset, for example PRC0257 to PRC1516 to a different directory? I am trying to do this for several ...

Good day, I am pretty new to Unix and I need to do this simple task.
I have a few files, let's name them file01, file02, file03 etc. and I need to copy each of them to one computer from a list. The ...